NCR, the same company responsible for those SD-card kiosks Blockbuster recently debuted at a couple of local locations, sent word this morning that it acquired DVDPlay, which has about 1,300 DVD-rental kiosks scattered about the U.S. and Canada. Said the note, NCR’s going to rebrand the stations with the Blockbuster…
1. The Texas Rangers trading Kevin Millwood for Chris Ray, then pursuing Rich Harden and Mike Lowell. 2. Dallas Mavericks’ forward Tim Thomas getting involved in a debacle at Denny’s. 3. Your Dallas Cowboys considering Tony Romo as their new/old holder…
Last I looked, Steve Mauldin’s still listed on the KTVT-Channel 11 Web site as president and general manager of that station — and its KTXA-Channel 21 sibling too. But not according to Variety: Says the Hollywood trade in a just-posted piece, Maudlin’s off to Los Angeles to take over KCBS…
Speaking of missives sent from the U.S. Attorney’s Office …A press release just landed in the in-box concerning the tale of one Tommy Eugene Barber, a 32-year-old Dallas man who today pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to two counts of securities fraud. And what did Barber…
Much obliged to Tim Rogers and Uncle Barky for the reminder: Earlier this week WFAA-Channel 8 yanked A Charlie Brown Christmas to run Good Morning Texas After Dark, which, as Ed describes it, is “basically is a collection of mini-infomercials sharing space with actual non-paid program content.” Which isn’t the…
Twenty-nine-year-old Matthew Ruff, a bio-medical engineer, interned last year at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He also pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal child pornography charge, which will result in at least a few years in federal prison, lifetime supervision and up to a $250,000 fine should the court accept his…
Dallas Cowboys’ offensive lineman Flozell Adams has been fined four times for $75,000 this season for the transgressions of tripping, fighting and – last Sunday in New York – cheap-shotting the back of Justin Tuck. The Giants’ lineman called Adams a “coward” and a “dirtbag”. Former Giant and Fox analyst Michael Strahan…
The News has a front-page piece this morning on the Snowball Express, which landed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport yesterday, bringing with it 1,300 kids from all over the world who’ve lost a parent serving in the U.S. armed forces since 2001. Theirs is a busy itinerary: Southfork Ranch, a…
It’s been, what, seven months since last we saw John Bryant and Byron Pierce’s conceptual rendering for the planned minor-league ballpark on the banks of the Trinity River. Since then, especially recently, several Friends of Unfair Park have wondered in the comments and via e-mail whatever became of that daydream,…
The only thing that could make this any more creepyweirdfunny is if it was hand-delivered by a cleaveage-baring dragon wearing a Jim Kern jersey whilst talking in a sing-songy Australian accent. I get some crazy stuff. Nothing beats this one. In my mailbox at the Dallas Observer yesterday I got…
For me, it arrived November 18, 1984. Born, raised and saturated with the DNA of the Dallas Cowboys, I was profoundly distraught over a lackluster loss to the lowly Buffalo Bills on a sad Sunday afternoon. Downtrodden bordering on depressed, a buddy and I ventured to lift our spirits at…
Burn, baby: Well, that’s distressing. Here Buzz is, due to dispense our bit of weekly wisdom/news/crapola, but we just can’t get into it. Really, what’s the point? See, we just got off the phone with a reader, who was upset with our column last week suggesting that the city should…
Our Danny Fulgencio trailed some of Your Texas Rangers — among them, Chris Davis, David Murphy, Ian Kinsler, Derek Holland and new hitting coach Clint Hurdle — as they made the rounds at Children’s Medical Center, a holiday tradition amongst athletes spreading cheer to young patients in need. He brought…
National Public Radio just posted a piece of its All Things Considered piece on the Dallas Tea Party; the audio, of course, won’t be available till this evening for those who aren’t going to listen live sometime after the show’s 4 p.m. kick-off on KERA-FM (90.1). What do we learn…
I missed the name of the gentleman, clad in a dark suit and tie (that’s him at the top right of the screengrab), who, about an hour ago, pleaded with the Dallas City Council to vote against designating Northern Hills as a conservation district. The City Plan Commission OK’d the…
After the jump is an e-mail I received this morning from a Friend of Unfair Park, who received it this morning via a neighborhood crime watch mailing list. It concerns a carjacking in the parking lot of the Albertsons at McKinney and Lemmon Avenues. Though the e-mail says the incident…
Yesterday I met James Waghorne outside his home: a blue Aerostar van parked at the Travel Centers of America truck stop off I-20 and Bonnie View Road. This isn’t the first time he’s been homeless, just the first time since 2002. But this time is different, he says. For one…
Nor the best. But as tribute, theme jingles go, um … it’s one of them…
The Dallas Morning News’s circulation is way down — by 30 percent since 2007 — which is just what A.H. Belo higher-ups expected when they decided to start upping the price of the paper. In a “special report,” Editor & Publisher details just how the News came up with the…
Boxing promoter Bob Arum should be in Arlington some time ’round about, oh, now, as he and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s manager, Richard Schaefer, and HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg visit with Jerry Jones to see what he’s willing to part with in order to bring the Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight…
Guess they’re testing it for the Texas-North Carolina hoops game Dec.19 at Cowboys Stadium. Either that, or I’ll betcha $1 that Mat McBriar hits JumboJerry Sunday against the San Diego Chargers…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced yesterday that it’s giving Dallas $25 million in grant money — more than in previous years. Why the bump? Says here that’s because Dallas, along with Boston and Philadelphia, has been promoted to a “Tier 1” city — “the highest-risk tier for terrorist…
